s) EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 
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district of St. Saviour’s parish in Southwark, called 
Paris Garden, which contained two Bear-gardens, 
said to have been the first that were made near 
London. In these, according to Stow, were scaffolds 
for the spectators to stand upon—an indulgence for 
which they paid in the following manner: “Those 
who go to Paris Garden, the Belle Sauvage, or 
Theatre, to behold Bear-baiting, interludes, or fence 
play, must not account of any pleasant spectacle 
unless they first pay one pennie at the gate, another 
at the entrie of the scaffold, and a third for quiet 
standing.”* The time usually chosen for the ex- 
hibition of these national barbarisms, which were 
sufficiently disgraceful without this additional re- 
proach, was the after-part of the Sabbath Day. One 
Sunday afternoon in January, 1583, the scaffold 
being overcrowded with spectators, fell down during 
the performance, and a great number of persons 
were killed or maimed by the accident, which the 
Puritans of the time failed not to attribute to a 
Divine judgment.t 
Erasmus, who visited England in the time of 
Henry VIII, says there were many herds of Bears 
maintained in this country for the purpose of baiting. 
When Queen. Mary visited her sister the Princess 
Elizabeth, during her confinement at Hatfield House, 
a grand exhibition of Bear-baiting took place for 
* See also Strutt’s ‘‘ Sports and Pastimes,” | 
+ See Field, “A Godly Exhortation by occasion of the late Judgment 
of God shewed at Paris Garden, 13 January, 1583, upon divers Persons 
whereof some were killed, and many hurt at a Bear-bating,”’ &c. 
12mo, Lond, 1583. 
